Nonverbal Spells (Re: CHAPDISC: HBP11, Hermione's Helping Hand)

[Claudia]

No: HPFGUIDX 148989

Ginger:
> Nonverbal spells are now expected, although Harry notes that others
> are having as much trouble as he is.  Could this be a part of the
> reason Snape is later annoyed by Harry's inability to cast them by
> the end of the book?

Carol:
> Absolutely. Harry is supposed to excel at DADA, yet he's no better at
> nonverbal spells at the end of the year than he is at the beginning?
> Of course Snape is annoyed with him, just as he was annoyed with him
> for not trying in Occlumency. After all, if Harry is the Chosen One
> (and Snape surely knows that he is), he needs to learn nonverbal
> spells, and fast.


Claudia:

I only realized yesterday that Harry was in fact using nonverbal spells 
in HBP, when I read the "funny excerpts" section of "mugglenet". Sorry, 
don't have my book available right now, so I don't know where in the 
book it occurs, and I have to quote from mugglenet:
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"Pointing his wand at nothing in particular, he gave it an upward 
flick and said Levicorpus! inside his head.

"Aaaaaaaargh!"

There was a flash of light and the room was full of voices: Everyone 
had woken up as Ron had let out a yell. Harry sent Advanced Potion-
Making flying in panic; Ron was dangling upside down in midair as 
though an invisible hook had hoisted him up by the ankle.

"Sorry!" yelled Harry, as Dean and Seamus roared with laughter, and 
Neville picked himself up from the floor, having fallen out of 
bed. "Hang on- I'll let you down-"

He groped for the potion book and riffled throught it in a panic, 
trying to find the right page; at last he located it and deciphered 
one cramped word underneath the spell: Praying that this was the 
counter-jinx, Harry thought Liberacorpus! with all his might.

There was another flash of light, and Ron fell in a heap onto his 
mattress.

"Sorry," repeated Harry weakly, while Dean and Seamus continued to 
roar with laughter.

"Tomorrow," said Ron in a muffled voice, "I'd rather you set the 
alarm clock.""
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So we could say that Snape indeed managed to teach Harry a nonverbal 
spell! *g*

Claudia